Fabric-pin.



-No. 734,735. PATENTED JULY 28, 1903.

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FABRIC PIN.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 2a, 1903. no MODEL.

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4 iiHiiiO INVENTOR NITED STATES Patented July 28, 1903.

GEORGE W. MCGILL, OF RIVERDALE, NEW YORK.

FABRIC-PIN.

SPECIFICATION fern ding part Of Letters Patent No. 734,735, datedJuly 2B, 1903. application filed JahuaryZS, 1903 Serial No. 140,197. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE W. MOGILL, a citizen of the United States, anda resident of Riverdale, in the county of New York and State of New York,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in FabricPins, of

. der or bottom view of said Fig. 1.

which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to pins used for pinning fabrics and such like purposes; and it consists in a pinconstructed from a single piece of suitable wirepointed at one end and having its other end terminating in a cross head provided by the lateral and transverse folding of the wire thereat and giving the pin a T-shaped configuration with a loop depending from the center of such cross-head, with its lower circumference bearing against the shank of the pin, providing the pin a resilient looped clasp toretain the pin in the fabric in which it may be inserted and, further, to receive and detachably hold between it and such fabric and the pin-shank beneath the latter a stockticket, &c.

In the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, and in which simi lar letters and numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts, Figure 1 represents a front elevation of the pin, and Fig. 2 an un- Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the pin, showing its shank bent into a book form; and Fig. 6 is a perspcctive view of such Fig. 3. Fig. 4 is another front elevation of the pin, showing a ,modification in the folding ofthe wire forming its cross-head; and Fig. 5 is a top view of such Fig. 4. Fig.7 is another front elevation of the pin, showing a further modification in the folding of the wire in its crosshead; and Fig. 8 is a side elevation in part of such Fig. 7, taken on the line ww of that figure. Figs. 9, 11, and 13, respectively, are front elevations of the upper part of the pin, showing it provided with a loop or clasp in tegral with and depending from the center of its cross-head and with its lower circumference bearing against its shank below such cross-head. Figs. 10, 12, and 1a are side elevations of Figs. 9, 11, and 13, respectively, takenon the lines 00, y, and 2', respectively, of

the latter figures.

In the drawings, A indicates the pointed pin-- shank, and B indicates the folded cross-head of the pin. In constructing the pin as shown in Figs. 1 and 2 the unpointed end part of the wire blank is first folded upon itself at 2, providing the two folds or strands of wire (marked 1 and 3,) and is again folded back upon itself at 4, providing the part 5, which laps over the unpointed terminal 1 of the blank, preventing the upward movement of the latter, and forming a complete oblong loop consisting of two parallel strands of the wire with the top part of the shank folded over the center of the same and providing the pin its folded cross-head B. That partof the wire forming the shank of the pin is now folded at 6 across bot-l1 of the strands 1 and 3 of the cross-head B and is again folded at 7 down at right angles with said cross-head strands, completing the pin.

In Figs. 3 and 5 the cross-head of the pin is fashioned the same as it is in Figs. 1 and 2, the modified construction of the pin shown in the former figures being confined to the pin shank, which is shown hooked at its pointed end 8, adapting the pin to be used in hanging; curtains and other drapery, the hooked end 0 of the pin being adapted to be passed through the drapery and hung in a curtain-ring or on a rod or similar article and the cross-head of the pin being adapted to retain the curtain upon the pin.

In Figsfid and 4 the wire forming thecrosshead of the pin shown therein is folded as follows: The strands 1 and 3 are provided as in Figsul and 2, excepting that immediately back from their fold 2 the strand l is wound spirally around the-strand 3 to near the center of the latter, and the part 5 is similarly coiled around the other end of the strand 3 to its center, atwhich point it is folded down at right angles fromsuch coils,

providing the pin-shank A with the folds of its cross-head bound around by such ceiling of part of the wires thereinfterminal 'lof the strand l resting beneaththe'transverse coil of the part 5.

In Figs. 7and 8 the strands ofwire forming the cross-head of the pin are shown folded laterally in an 8-shaped loop, occupying a plane rectangular with the shank of the pin, and with the wire above the top of the shank proper wound around the crossed wires in the center of such loop in manner to tie them together and to tie therein the free end or terminal 1 of the blank.

In Figs. 9 to 14, inclusive, the wire forming the cross-head of the pin is shown folded in manner to provide the pin with a resilient clasp depending from its cross-head B and bearing against the pin-shank A below such cross-head. In Figs. 9 and 10 this feature is shown accomplished by lengthening the strand 1 of the cross-head and folding it into the loop or clasp O, with the terminal 1 of such strand seated below the cross-head. In Figs. 11 and 12 the wires in the crosshead are shown folded in manner to centrally cross each other, with the wire in the top part of the pin-shank proper looped over and bind- .ing such crossing, and in Figs. 13 and 14 this crossing of the wires is shown hound around by the free end or terminal 1 of the wire,

closing both the loop of the cross-head of the pin and of the clasp 0 depending therefrom.

The clasp C may be set in position to occupy a plane parallel with the shank of the pin, as is shown in Figs. 9 to 12, or it may be set at an angle diverging upward from the point where it engages with such shank, as is shown in Figs. 13 and 14.

In the modified construction of the device shown in Figs. 7, 8 that part of the wire blank providing its cross-head B is first bent laterally from the rest of itto the fold marked A on the left of its shank A and from there back across the shank to the fold marked 2 on the opposite side thereof and thence back in the first direction with the terminal 1 of the wire seated to the left of the shank, such folding of the wire forming the said crosshead, the strands of which are nowbound together at their center by the wire at the top of the shank being folded around then], as at 6 In the modified construction shown in Figs. 9, 10 that part of the wire providing the cross-head B is first bent laterally from the shank A to the fold marked 2 on the right side of the shank and thence back across the top of the shank to the fold marked 4 on its opposite side and thence back to the center of such folds, where the top of the shank intersects them, from which point it is folded down in manner to provide the depending the wire in its cross-head is shown similarly folded, excepting that the terminal 1 of the wire instead of being seated beneath the crosshead is folded around the center of the same in manner to bind together the strands composing it and to close the depending loop 0, as shown at 6 Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A fabric-pin fashioned from a single piece of wire in manner to providea relatively long pinpointed shank and a relatively short cross-head therefor, such cross-head formed by folds of the wire extending at right angles across the upper part of the shank, with the wire at the top of the latter transversely spanning such folds, and spanning the terminal part of the wire forming the same.

2. A fabric-pin fashioned from a single wire in manner to provide a relatively long pinpointed shank, and a relatively short crosshead therefor formed wholly from the lateral folding back and forth across the top part of such shank of the unpointed end of the wire, with the latter further folded in manner to provide a resilient looped clasp having both its arms extending dependently from the center of such cross-head and its base bearing against said shank.

3. A fabric-pin fashioned from asingle wire in manner to provide a relatively long pinpointed shank, and a relatively short crosshead, the latter formed by folds of the wire extending laterally across the top of the shank and having transverse folds of the wire encircling them in manner to bind them together and prevent their displacement.

4; Afabric-pin fashioned from asingle wire in manner to provide a relatively long pinpointed shank, and a relatively short crosshead therefor formed wholly from the lateral folding, on both sides of such shank, of the unpointed end of the wire, with the latter further folded in manner to provide a resilient clasp depending from the center of such cross-head, with the base of such clasp resting in spring bearing against the pin-shank and the terminal of the wire forming it wound centrally around the looped cross-head in manner to close both it and the depending spring-clasp.

1 Signed at Riverdale, in the county of New York and State of New York, this 23d day of June, A. D. 1902.

GEORGE W. MCGILL.

Witnesses:

W. HARRY MCGILL, MARY L. H. MOGILL. 

